6 years ago
Posted on 21st Oct 2019 by Admin

Class 4 spellings to be tested 24.10.19

The spelling patterns which we are learning this week and which will be tested on Thursday are:

Year 3 – Seals: Year 3 and 4 statutory words. The words chosen are a sample of these 100 words which we are using frequently in Class 4 this term. (See link below for the full list of words.) although, appear, decide, describe, different, difficult, group, material, notice, through.

Year 3 and 4 statutory spellings

Year 4 – Surfers: More words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’) e.g. expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, corrosion, supervision, fusion, conclusion, persuasion, suspension.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘igh’ phoneme e.g. bright, fight, high, light, might, night
sigh, sight, thigh, tight.

6 years ago
Posted on 18th Oct 2019 by Admin

Weekly News 18.10.19

Harvest donations

Thank you to everyone for the Harvest donations and to families and friends who were able to join us in church this morning. The donations have been delivered to Shrewsbury Food Bank and they were overwhelmed with the generosity of our school community.

Parent meetings

If you haven’t already booked an appointment with your child’s class teacher(s), there is still time to do so. The booking system will remain open until Tuesday evening. If you have not received a confirmation email, please check your junk/spam folder.

Just a reminder that after-school clubs will be running as normal on Wednesday but will be held in Nursery rather than in the Eco-room. Please come to the school office if you are collecting your child/children before 4:30 p.m. Thank you.

Gardening and DIY day

We are planning another DIY and gardening day on Saturday 26th October and we would love to see you if you are able to spare a couple of hours.

Quiz Trail Competition Time

Thank you if you have already purchased the Quiz Trail for only £5. This is a great way to entertain the family over half term and have the opportunity of winning a brilliant prize, whilst raising money for school funds.

12K of Christmas Charity Challenge

Thank you for the fantastic response to the 12K Charity Challenge. If you would still like your child to take part, please return the slip and entry fee as soon as possible.

Year 6 secondary school applications

The Local Authority have asked us to remind Year 6 parents that the deadline is fast approaching for making secondary school applications. All applications must be made by 31st October.

Cross Country at The Corbet

Well done to the children who took part in the cross country event at The Corbet on Wednesday evening. The next event is after school on Wednesday 6th November for children in Years 3 to 6. Letters will be given to children next week, who show an interest in taking part.

Remembrance Day Poppies

Poppies and other British Legion products will be on sale at the school office from next Monday.

Flute lessons

If your child is interested in learning to play the flute, by having lessons in school through Shropshire Music Service, please speak to Mrs Neal at the school office.

LETTER REMINDERS

Flu immunisation letters

Please can all flu immunisation letters be returned by Wednesday 23rd October at the very latest. We need the letters to be returned whether you would like your child to have the immunisation next Thursday or not.

Christmas card designs

We need to send the Christmas card designs off to the printing company before we break up next Thursday so please can all designs be returned by Thursday morning at the very latest.

Arthog deposits

If you would like your child to take part in the Arthog residential next summer, please can you return the slip and deposit by next Thursday. Thank you

6 years ago
Posted on 17th Oct 2019 by Admin

Maths

Over the half term we have covered numbers 1 – 5. For each number we have looked at how many, counted objects, compared numbers using the language – bigger, smaller, ordered the numbers, found one more and one less, identified missing numbers in a line up of 0-5, looked at shapes – linked triangle to 3, square and rectangle linked to to 4, subitised with amounts to 5 (daily).

What is subitising? –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwt7NgfeZRY

https://nrich.maths.org/2477

This week the children have looked at:
• Different ways of arranging blocks to 5
• Conservation of number – different arrangement of blocks but the number remains the same

Year 1: Partitioning a whole number into parts
• Conservation of number – a number can be partitioned but the whole
(total) remains the same.

The Year 1 children have investigated the parts of numbers to 5 and recorded numbers sentences to show what the understand and have found out.

We have used the rhymes – 5 Little Ducks, 5 Speckled Frogs and 5 Apples on a tree to help with the idea that the number stays the same – There are 5 ducks altogether, 2 are in the pond and 3 have gone over the hill etc.

6 years ago
Posted on 17th Oct 2019 by Admin

Read Write inc

This week the children have looked at :

‘o’ – All around the orange. o

‘c’ – Curl around the caterpillar c

READING
Fred the Frog puppet plays an important role in our Read Write Inc lessons. Fred is only able to speak in sounds, not whole words. We call this Fred Talk. For example, Fred would say m-a – t we would say mat. Fred talk helps children read unfamiliar words by pronouncing each sound in the word one at a time. Children can start blending sounds into words as soon as they know a small group of letters well. During lessons children are taught to hear sounds and blend them together in sequence to make a word. We start with blending oral sounds, then progress to reading the letters and blending them together to read the word.
The following video is an example of blending sounds with Fred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q

Order of teaching sounds
In Read Write Inc phonics the individual sounds are called ‘speed sounds’ –
because we want your child to read them effortlessly. Set 1 sounds are the initial
letter sounds. They are taught in the following order.
m, a, s, d, t, i, n, p, g, o, c, k, u, b, f, e, l, h, sh, r, j, v, y, w, th, z, ch, qu, x, ng, nk

Word time Lessons
As soon as children have learnt a few initial letter sounds they begin to learn to
blend the sounds together to read real words in a Word Time session. Each word
time session involves oral blending of known sounds before they are shown the
words written down on green cards. Children practice Fred talking the words until
they become able to read them on sight. Once children are confident reading the short sentences they are challenged to use their developing phonic knowledge to write a sentence. There are plenty of opportunities for children to choose to write within the inside and outside class room areas.

Year 1: Word time and Ditty lessons. The children need to read and write whole sentences linked to the sounds / story.

6 years ago
Posted on 15th Oct 2019 by Admin

Class 4 spellings 14.10.19

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: More homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. berry / bury, brake / break, meat / meet, ball / bawl, fare / fair.

Year 4 – Surfers: Words with /shun/ endings spelt with ‘sion’ (if root word ends in ‘se’, ‘de’ or ‘d’) e.g. division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television, revision, erosion, inclusion, explosion.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘er’ phoneme e.g. term, fern, herd, herb, adder, letter, river, farmer, better, super.

6 years ago
Posted on 15th Oct 2019 by Admin

Forest School

We will be continuing with Forest School sessions next week and after half term

6 years ago
Posted on 15th Oct 2019 by Admin

Parent meetings booking system

There has been an issue with the booking system for our parent meetings next Wednesday 23rd October and we are doing our utmost to resolve it. Thank you.

6 years ago
Posted on 14th Oct 2019 by Admin

Spelling Patterns

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 2 this week are:

Year 1: Adding the endings -ing, -ed and -er to verbs where no change is needed to the root word. E.g. hunting, hunted, hunter

Year 2: The sound /s/ spelt ‘c’ before e, i and y. E.g. fancy, face

6 years ago
Posted on 14th Oct 2019 by Admin

Quiz Trail Competition Time!

Are you looking for ways to entertain the family over half term? Would you like to be in with a chance of winning a brilliant prize? Would you like to help raise money for school funds? Well, you can do all of this by buying a Quiz Trail sheet for only £5.

The trail will take you on a tour around some of the shops and historical monuments of Shrewsbury, prompting you to answer questions on the way. The trail is approximately 2 miles long. Enter as individuals or groups – it’s up to you. 100% of the money raised will go to Bicton Primary School and Nursery.

There are 15 prizes to be won which have kindly been donated by Aislin’s Funhouse, Artcadia, Button and Bear, Cineworld, Climbing the Walls, DM Cycles, Hibiscus, Jump In, Orchard Café, Shrewsbury Town FC, Tanners Wines, and The Lion Hotel. The total value of prizes is approximately £270!

Quizzes will be for sale in the playground at the end of the school day on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and also at the Harvest services at Bicton Church on Friday morning. Don’t miss out!

6 years ago
Posted on 11th Oct 2019 by Admin

Weekly News 11.10.19

Reminder – DIY and Gardening Day

We hope you will be able to join us tomorrow for our DIY and gardening day. If you are coming along, please can you bring a travel mug, if you have one, for hot drinks.

Thank you.

Letters out this week

Arthog – Class 5

Parents’ lunch – Class 4

Harvest services – Classes 1 to 5

Acorns

Willow

Birch

Hazel

Maple

Rowan

Oak

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Class 4 spellings to be tested 24.10.19

Weekly News 18.10.19

Maths

Read Write inc

Class 4 spellings 14.10.19

Forest School

Parent meetings booking system

Spelling Patterns

Quiz Trail Competition Time!

Weekly News 11.10.19